A video story for Rhododendron Week 2021 with Seamus O’Brien, Head Gardener at the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland, Kilmacurragh. Seamus tells the story of some of the finest Rhododendron specimens at Kilmacurragh, their discovery, naming and entry into...
Welcome to the launch of Rhododendron Week at the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland, Kilmacurragh. Here is our first video story of the week, with Dr. Matthew Jebb, Director, National Botanic Gardens of Ireland, and Séamus O’Brien, Head Gardener at...
Very early in the 1860s, some rhododendron seedlings arrived at Kilmacurragh, sent to Thomas Acton by Dr David Moore, Curator of the National (then Royal) Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. The seedlings were a result of a cross between two of Joseph Hooker’s Sikkim...
